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While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.